Is this the future of the news? CBS has decided to partner with Global Post -- a web site for foreign news. PBS has done the same with Tehran Bureau -- a site I first stumbled across during the Iranian protests that began earlier this year, the New York Times is reporting this morning.

I am quite mixed about this. While I tend to trust PBS more than CBS to do the right thing with the information gleaned from these webites, I wonder what they will do to the actual stories? GlobalPost seems like it has a good business model. We need good foreign reporting - but what we need even more is more honesty from our own media.
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81 comments (Latest Comment: 09/29/2009 02:47:51 by Mondobubba)

With the usual apologies to Bob Ryan, from whom I shamelessly steal this idea from time to time.

You wanna buy a Fiat?

Yeah, that's right...the longtime Italian carmaker that hasn't sold a car in the United States for quite some time. (Like most carmakers though, they're a giant conglomorate. You can easily find Alfa-Romeos and Maseratis here, but not the 'base' nameplate.)

In any case, you might remember that Chrysler has a huge stake in Fiat. You might also be aware that Chrysler can't sell a car in the US to save their company. So.....instead of the folks in Detroit taking the time and effort to design and build a car in the US that people might want to buy, they've decided to put the Chrysler label on this:



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12 comments (Latest Comment: 09/26/2009 22:24:29 by Mondobubba)

Back in June, I wrote a blog about how the right wing was upping the ante. It pissed a good many people off. It was after we saw the assassination of a security guard in Washington DC. It was after the assassination of Dr. Tiller. It was 2 months after the DHS report came out that people went ballistic over. I almost could have reposted it word for word regarding the events that have unfolded over the past 24 hours. Here is part of what was written:
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86 comments (Latest Comment: 09/25/2009 12:23:05 by Scoopster)

Good Morning.

Today is our 2,379th day in Iraq.

We'll start this morning as we always do, with the latest casualty figures from Iraq and Afghanistan, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4345
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4206
Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 3882
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3486
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 117

Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 325
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 838
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 566
Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,395
Journalists - Iraq: 335
Academics Killed - Iraq: 431

We find this morning's cost of war passing through:
$ 912, 166, 600, 000 .00

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28 comments (Latest Comment: 09/23/2009 02:39:07 by clintster)

Recently the Republicans held some sort of soirée called the “Values Voters Conference” at the Hilton Hotel in Washington DC which is most remembered for being the site that John Hinckley attempted to get Jodie Foster to notice him. In attendance were the haut monde of the Republican Party. Those that hold their values high and their "holier than thou" sword above the bed of their wives and mistresses; their moral compass never wavers from the direction of the righteousness.

Or does it?

There are some Republicans who I like to call: Republocrites.

Republocrites are those in the GOP who admonish us “little people” that we must always take the moral high ground, while they have been known to wander off the path and into a bank or a whorehouse or, if God were to bless them, a multinational financial center with a whorehouse and a casino attached!

Here are just a few cases in point of those that attended the Conference begging for those Christian votes.
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13 comments (Latest Comment: 09/21/2009 00:47:46 by velveeta jones)